European Journal of Law Reform

The External Dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the Lisbon Treaty

105360Juan Santos VaraAssociate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Salamanca (Spain). PhD in Law from the University of Salamanca, Master in European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and Master in European Studies from the University Carlos III of Madrid. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School, at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University and at the King's College London. The paper was presented at the International Conference on “The Lisbon Reform Treaty: Internal and External Implications,” organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Davis Institute for International Relations and the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration, July 13-14, 2008. The present paper has benefited from the support of the research project: “Las relaciones entre la UE y NU: hacia la defensa del multilateralismo eficaz,” DER2008-05419/JURI, financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.